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Poor can’t be burdened with fight against climate change: Mahajan
United Nations: In a strong message to the developed nations, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has said that sustainable development and a victory in the war against climate change cannot be attained on the backs of the poor.
“The burden of sustainability cannot be placed on the poor,” Mahajan said. “Livelihood concerns of the underprivileged cannot be compromised for lifestyle interests of others.”
Addressing a session of the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliaments on UN Millenium Development Goals (MDG) and the future agenda Monday, she said: “Our efforts to mainstream sustainability will remain hollow unless we are able to confront the issues of inequity in consumption of global resources and reducing the unsustainable ecological footprints of the developed countries.”
India has been under pressure from developed nations to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions even though it could put its poverty fighting programmes at risk. Though India is often portrayed as the third worst emitter of carbon dioxide, after China and the US, its per capital output of carbon dioxide is only 1.7 tonnes against 17.6 tonnes for the US in 2010, according to the World Bank.
Mahajan reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s concept of saving the environment by promoting frugality and respect for nature.
“Indian traditional wisdom emphasises a culture of frugality, of doing more with less, of taking only as much as required from nature and of no wastage,” she said.
“In India, we worship earth, water, air, fire and space which are the five elements of nature. These ideals need to be embraced if we are serious about combating climate change and sustainable development.”
Warning that persistent poverty in many countries was “not only politically untenable” but “also economically unviable and morally indefensible”, she highlighted the global clamour for development. The elections that brought the BJP to power “symbolised a great yearning for growth and development by the people of India”, she said.
“Ending poverty must be the central and overriding objective of the new development agenda for the post-2015 period,” she said.
The preparatory committee is meeting here ahead of the World Conference of Speakers of Parliament to be held next year in the run-up to the UN Summit which is expected to set new development goals to follow the MDG. One of the issues that the speakers’ conference will take up is promoting gender equality.
Speaking at another committee session on mainstreaming gender equality, Mahajan, who is the second woman to be the speaker of the Lok Sabha, said: “India was among the early pioneers of gender empowerment. Our freedom struggle and subsequent political evolution has given women equal political rights, including at the grassroots level.”
Now, she said, “India is fully committed to the promotion of gender equality and for utilising enabling technologies, in particular information communication technology (ICT), for the empowerment of women.”
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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